related works
Dark City : version for piano quintet and violoncello solo / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
str pf vcl solo
Zu wem spreche ich heute? : Lied für eine Singstimme und Orchester / componirt von Theo van der Bijl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2223 4000 cel hp org str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt/sopr-m 2122 2000 str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium fl 2vl vla vc / medium fl str(vl vla vc)
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans